Atlanta
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St. Thomas More Society Seeks To Raise Profile
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 23, 2007Ed Konieczny has a big tent vision as the new president for the Atlanta’s St. Thomas More Society, an organization for Catholics lawyers. “My STMS colleagues are good and honorable people. Spending time with them strengthens my faith by strengthening my connection to community. I learn from them and am inspired by them, and together, […] Full Story
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Atlanta To Host Catholic Medical Conference
Published August 23, 2007
The 76th annual educational conference of the Catholic Medical Association will be held Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 4-6, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel near Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead. Founded in 1932, the CMA is open to physicians and dentists, both active and retired; nurses; medical students; allied health care professionals; clergy, Religious and seminarians; and all […] Full Story
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Local Seniors Awarded $9 Million In Scholarships
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 23, 2007As the recent graduates of archdiocesan Catholic schools begin to head off to college, they do so armed with an impressive amount of scholarship money—over $9 million. The 495 students who graduated in the class of 2007 at the three archdiocesan high schools—St. Pius X High School, Atlanta, Blessed Trinity High School, Roswell, and Our […]
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Families Asked To Create ‘Culture Of Vocations’
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 23, 2007Catholic families should adopt a “culture of vocations” to increase the numbers of women and men becoming sisters and priests, according to speakers at the Serra International Convention. Nearly 600 members of Serra International clubs from around the globe, meeting in Atlanta, heard bishops, Scripture scholars, and other speakers urge them to continue to support […] Full Story
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Pope Draws Young To Religious Life, Sister Says
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 23, 2007Dominican Sister Catherine Marie Hopkins flashed a quick smile and told the group of Serrans something they hadn’t heard a lot of during a weekend focused on the drop in vocations. “I bring a message of hope,” said Sister Catherine Marie. “God has not stopped calling.” In a twist, she said a way to encourage […] Full Story
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Prayer Service Offers Healing To Abuse Survivors
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 23, 2007With a gentle touch of a hand and gesturing a sign of the cross, the Catholic spiritual leader of North Georgia offered blessings for healing to the slow moving line of abuse victims, family members of victims and their advocates who filled the aisle of Christ the King Cathedral. Some 40 people attended the Monday […] Full Story
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New Archdiocesan Religious Education Director Chosen
By SUZANNE HAUGH, Special To The Bulletin
Published August 23, 2007The Assumption has a special significance in the life of Dennis Johnson Jr., who began his new position as the director of the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education on this feast day. It is also the day his son, David Carlos, now 8, was baptized. In July, David Carlos was climbing the stairs in their […]
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‘Meet And Greet’ Planned For New Religious Ed Director
Published August 23, 2007
The archdiocesan Office of Religious Education will hold three open house sessions on Thursday, Sept. 6, for interested Catholics to come and meet the new director of religious education, Dennis Johnson Jr. The “meet and greet” open house sessions are set for 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 […] Full Story
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‘Scott’s Run’ Event To Aid Victimized Children
Published August 16, 2007
For the sixth year, Catholic Charities of Atlanta will host the fundraising race event called “Scott’s Run.” The 5K run and 1-mile walk will take place at the Carter Center on Saturday, Oct. 6, beginning at 8 a.m., rain or shine. Proceeds from the event will benefit Catholic Charities’ Children’s Project, a program dedicated to […] Full Story
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Bearing Witness Program Stirs Powerful Emotions
By REBECCA RAKOCZY, Special To The Bulletin
Published August 16, 2007Powerful, amazing and troubling: that’s the overall response of the 35 Catholic educators from the Archdiocese of Atlanta and dioceses of Savannah and Louisville, Ky., who participated in the first “Bearing Witness” ™ program in the Southeast held at St. Pius X High School. Created in 1996 by the Anti-Defamation League in Washington, D.C., as … Continue reading Bearing Witness Program Stirs Powerful Emotions
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‘Garden Party’ To Benefit The Sullivan Center
Published August 16, 2007
Dick Williams, newspaper columnist and host of The Georgia Gang on FOX 5 will emcee “A Garden Party” fundraiser for The Sullivan Center Inc., directed by Sister Marie Sullivan, OP, which provides help with dignity to individuals and families in crisis in the Atlanta area. The gala on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 7:30 to 10:30 […]
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Superior Speaks Of Christ’s Call To Love Others
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007PThe highest official in the Legionaries of Christ urged members of the religious congregation and its lay members to follow the Gospel message, to love in word and action. “We are called to love. We are called to love in deeds, and not just in words. We are called to love our enemies, and not […] Full Story
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Thousands Feel ‘Grace Flowing’ At National Encounter
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007Joanna Brunson of Columbus had attended many religious conferences but joked she had never seen so many “people with children and strollers in (her) life.” Brunson was among the approximately 4,000 people who attended the 11th Youth and Family Encounter, organized by priests of the Legionaries of Christ and members of Regnum Christi, an apostolic […]
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Mexican Actor Shares Conversion Story, ‘Bella’ Movie
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007A video shown at the 11th Youth and Family Encounter of Eduardo Veràstegui shows girls, young and old, crying over him, blowing him kisses, screaming and rushing to get near him as he greets his adoring fans. But the video changes from the frenetic pace of fandom when the Mexican actor begins to speak of […]
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‘We Walk By Faith’ Taken Literally By Pilgrims
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007Delores Kovacik looked like one of the millions of tourists that visit Atlanta. But after paying the $1.75 MARTA fare to travel from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to the city center, Kovacik and her three traveling companions promptly gave their few remaining dollars away to start their sojourn here. Kovacik was a modern pilgrim with […] Full Story
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Prayer Service, Programs Offered For Abuse Victims
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007Catholics and people of faith can express sympathy with victims of abuse, their families and the hurting community at a prayer service of consolation on Monday, Aug. 13. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will lead the evening service, which begins at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Cathedral of Christ the King, located at […]
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Initiative To Give Young Adults Place To Share Journeys
By ERIKA ANDERSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007Small group programs have been wildly successful in non-denominational churches throughout the metro-Atlanta area—so successful, in fact, that many young adults have left the Catholic Church because of them. David Kosko knows about this firsthand. When a friend of his invited him to a local non-denominational small group program, Kosko felt immediately welcomed. It was […] Full Story
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Emory Exhibit Shows Emergence Of Christianity
Published August 2, 2007
Visitors to the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University can travel back to the earliest days of Christianity as they stroll through the exhibit “Cradle of Christianity.” The exhibit uses important biblical artifacts to depict emerging Christian life concurring with Jewish tradition at that time. “The exhibit concretely and dramatically illustrates the gradual evolution […]
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AACCW Plans 51st Annual Convention In Atlanta
By JEAN DRISKELL, Special To The Bulletin
Published August 2, 2007The Atlanta Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women (AACCW) will hold its 51st annual convention Sept. 28-30, at the Holiday Inn Select on Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta. This year’s theme is “A Woman’s Journey: To Teach, Serve and Empower.” “The convention is an opportunity for the women of the archdiocese to come together to experience fellowship […]
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Priests Offered Insights For Multicultural Parishes
By ANDREW NELSON, Staff Writer
Published August 2, 2007More than 40 years after the first contemporary Latino Catholic immigrants arrived in Atlanta, English-speaking and Spanish-speaking worshippers are still getting to know each other. “We are strangers trying to live together in the same house. We need to accept that,” said Msgr. Luis Zarama, vicar general for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Church celebrations between […] Full Story